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[Tea Mabby @mabbytea]

@djparker0449 @NEJM SI joint dysfunction and/or lower spine?

[HighImpactFlix @HighImpactFlix]

Damn! Contemplating the disgusting darkness of the FOR-PROFIT Prison Industrial Complex pipeline is alarming! It almost looks like HUMAN TRAFFICKING!

Did you know that Corporations like Walmart and McDonald's (just to name two) benefit directly and indirectly by flooding prisons with bodies??

CoreCivic and GEO Group (Corporate Prison Operators) heavily benefit from state and federal prisons/detention systems. They are the two largest U.S. private prison/detention operators and earn the majority of their revenue from government contracts.

Have you ever considered how they benefit and how it all works? (and these aren't the only two):

Per-diem contracts: Governments pay them a daily rate per detained person (higher occupancy = higher revenue). Many contracts include minimum occupancy guarantees (e.g., 90%+), ensuring steady income even if populations fluctuate.

Management/operation of facilities: They run government-owned or their own facilities under contract.

ICE immigration detention: A major profit driver, especially under high-enforcement policies; they hold most ICE detainees and have seen revenue surges from new/expanded contracts and reactivated facilities.

State prisons/jails: Contracts to house state/local inmates.

Additional services: Transportation, electronic monitoring, reentry programs, and facility construction/design.

Lobbying & policy influence: They advocate for policies that sustain/increase incarceration/detention demand.

They also receive government subsidies, tax advantages (historically as REITs), and land deals in some cases.

They own and operate many facilities themselves (separate from purely government-run ones), then contract with federal/state governments to house inmates/detainees. They also manage government-owned facilities ("manage-only" contracts) or lease their properties to governments.

Their business model is built on government outsourcing of incarceration/detention — more people locked up and higher utilization directly boost their profits.

Supplies companies benefit by selling goods (food, commissary items, clothing, medical supplies, telecom, security equipment) to prisons at often inflated prices under government contracts. Examples: Aramark/Keefe (food/commissary with high markups), telecom firms like Securus (expensive calls). Steady, captive demand from large inmate populations drives reliable revenue.

Construction companies profit from building, expanding, renovating, and maintaining prisons/jails/detention centers via lucrative government contracts (design-build, financing, maintenance). Examples: Turner Construction, AECOM, Caddell. Mass incarceration fuels ongoing demand for new facilities.

Services companies gain through contracts for food services, healthcare, transportation, probation/monitoring, reentry programs, and tech (surveillance/IT). They also access cheap prison labor (often $0.50–$2/hour or less) for manufacturing, agriculture, and services—lowering costs for their operations or supply chains (e.g., food processors, retailers like Walmart via subcontracts).

These firms thrive on high incarceration volumes, government outsourcing, and exploitable labor—part of the broader prison industrial complex with thousands of players.

Bottom line is that each incarcerated person functions as a multi-layered revenue stream for the duration of their sentence (and sometimes beyond via supervision/probation).

The longer the stay and the higher the utilization, the more predictable and profitable the flow. This creates strong financial incentives across operators, vendors, and some government entities to maintain high incarceration levels. In short: Incarceration = ongoing monetization of a captive population.

And you may ask: How are prisoners incentivized to expend their labor for these companies?

Primarily through a mix of low (or no) pay and the threat of punishment.

Positive Incentives (Limited)

Tiny wages — Typically $0.13–$1.15/hour (sometimes $0), usable for commissary purchases.

Privileges — Better housing, more phone/visitation time, recreation access, or preferred jobs.

Good time credits — In some systems, work can reduce sentence length or improve parole chances.

Voluntary programs (e.g., certain PIECP/private contracts) offer slightly higher pay and skills training.

Strong Negative Incentives
Mandatory work — Most sentenced inmates who are medically able must work; refusal is a disciplinary violation.

Punishments for refusal — Solitary confinement, loss of good time credits (delaying release), revoked privileges (visits, phone, commissary), extended sentences, or worse housing.

In short: Coercion via penalties is the main driver; genuine voluntary incentives are minimal for most routine prison labor.

If you wanna know about the lobby money these Prison Pipeline Companies spend and their ROI, lemme know.

[Trumpelstiltskin @Abomination1349]

@01Kat2 @Loretta18960615 @CynicalPublius Private equity firms are ruining the entire veterinary profession, and destroying pets in the process. 😞

https://t.co/9SovM8qAx9

[Shaf @Shafpocalypse]

@mattforney Ruined housing
Ruined toy stores
Ruined book stores
Currently ruining vet clinics
Have ruined and bankrupted more small companies than we can never know

In fact, private equity has, through greed and short sightedness, ruined the American dream for many

[Ed Markey @EdMarkey]

We need to get private equity out of our lives.

[Ben Swann @BenSwann_]

The Tyler Robinson story makes no sense whatsoever.

There's no way he was the shooter given the ridiculous details, including AI enhanced photos and multiple claims about the gun and clothes.

Right after the shooting, an older man stood up and claimed responsibility. But that was dismissed as him being "confused" and quickly glossed over.

Confused about what? That he shot Charlie Kirk?

[Tea Mabby @mabbytea]

@KING5Seattle What's going on, King 5? Does your social media manager despise you or something?

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

$500 per vote.

That’s what the Israeli lobby spent to beat me,

and they still couldn’t do it with factual ads, or even fake ads based on policy.

They ran with personal lies and AI videos to convince elderly voters I was sleeping with Ilhan Omar and AOC at the same time.

[Tea Mabby @mabbytea]

@0hour1 @mtgreenee Punctuation helps get your point across.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Three rabid Israel First billionaires (Miriam Adelson, Paul Singer, John Paulson) are pouring obscene amounts into one Kentucky Congressional district to remove @RepThomasMassie from Congress for being one of the few vocal, consistent GOP critics of US financing of Israel.

[Ben Swann @BenSwann_]

Today, the battle isn't between liberals and conservatives. It's between America First and Israel First.

After the Oct. 7th attacks, The Daily Wire showed where they stand. Their entire purpose is to run cover for Israel.

People like @TuckerCarlson, @RealCandaceO, and @RealAlexJones have shown that you don't need big institutions behind you. All you need is honesty and common sense: two things The Daily Wire never had.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

I’m shocked at the silence of American “Christians” about what Israel did in Gaza and now southern Lebanon.

Our tax dollars, money we work for and pay to our government, paid for this.

When I tried to defund Israel, only 5 other members of Congress voted with me.

Now we are all stained with the blood of the innocent.

[Tea Mabby @mabbytea]

@DoTheRightWing @buckleycarlson Nothing burger

[Buckley Carlson @buckleycarlson]

Yes, Trump is a slave, and a hostage, and we are NOT sovereign. Whatever the consequence to him, personally, (or to his obscenely profiting children), Trump needs to find the courage to disengage from Bibi and Israel. He works for US, and he WILL answer to God some day…even he knows.

[Tea Mabby @mabbytea]

@guanchewarrior @DrJillStein It's so painful to think about. Ugh ....

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

There go the Israeli child snatchers, fanning the flames of world revulsion. A reckoning is coming.

[Ben Swann @BenSwann_]

Why aren't more Christians, especially in the United States, outraged about this?

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

American Christians speak out!!!
America can’t be silent and must stop funding Israel to do such atrocities!!!

[Tea Mabby @mabbytea]

OMG. Poor baby. 😥

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

Footage shows the moment a 10-year-old girl, Marah, was pulled alive from the rubble in Gaza City after a building collapse during ongoing attacks. She is one of the lucky ones.

[Jason Rantz on Seattle Red @jasonrantz]

Huge victory against Washington Democrats. They lost in court today for a new law that would give them the ability to remove elected sheriffs for virtually any reason. Story coming soon.